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lyrics
(Spoken) This one go for my people back home,
Do anything, go anywhere; do nothing you go nowhere
Tumi:
One day they forced us back
Drew lines across the maps
They call them borders
We don’t honour, we connect ‘em back
Monday we saw the Alps
Tuesday we saw the outback
They call them borders
We don’t honour, we closin’ the gap
One day they forced us back
Drew lines across the maps
They call them borders
We don’t honour, we connect ‘em back
Monday we saw the Alps
Tuesday we saw the outback
They call them borders
We don’t honour, we closin’ the gap
1/6:
(Spoken)Yeah we closin’ the gap
RSA to AUS
The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra meets The Poet MC Tumi
And you know we breaking down geographical borders
In a musical world where you can…
Tumi:
Do anything, go anywhere
Do anything, go anywhere
Do anything, go anywhere
Do anything, go anywhere
Do anything, go anywhere
Yeah they say the pictures rosy
And the thorns of the pricks you vote in
Licks your sores clean
It’s T from the V, the poet mc, I bleed and draw ink
Out the horses mouth like a silent trojan
I’m in, get the doors open
Hordes potent, land on the shores hopin’
For mysterious potion,
That’s the notion
Go where you need to be goin’
Put your feet in the ocean, got to see what the world is
‘Cos it’s worth it, ain’t shit perfect
Work it, right foot first an tread it
Be that person, reaffirm it
Unleash the jesus, don’t just read the sermon
See my purpose, speak them verses
‘Til the people reach precipice
Girls:
Do anything, go anywhere; do nothing you go nowhere
Do anything, go anywhere; do nothing you go nowhere
Do anything, go anywhere; do nothing you go nowhere
Do anything, go anywhere; do nothing you go nowhere
1/6:
Do anything, go anywhere
Do anything, go anywhere
Do anything, go anywhere
Do anything, go anywhere
Do anything, go anywhere
Out the bomb raid
Words set sail on soundwaves
To break all the barriers doubts made
And drown the outrage doused by the crowns who dabbling
Where pain paints tears on a clowns face
And powers are not made, for fear of not having
A crime placed in full view of citizens out in the town space
Glint from the silver spoon stuck in the mouths of babes
The blind, the poor so the sense is outweighed
Train ticket in my front right pocket
Back compartment, passport of cities I’ve left
Brain tickin’ on behind eye sockets
So the stage relate when I dig in the depths
Every lyric expressed is truth
Even the freshest truth will feel the heat when it gets to the cold gates
Even if it’s a different direction
Who’s to say it’s wrong when you’re goin’ your own way
Forced to brave on’ ’til your bones break
Strong is a bold statement that you don’t make
Unless you stay on ’til you grey
Chansons are going to play on ’til your throat aches
Keep on singin’, believe and keep livin’ your dreams, all evidence of more to life
Keep on singin’, believe and keep livin’, no time for sleep when there’s wars to fight
Keep on singin’, believe and keep livin’ your dreams, all evidence of more to life
Keep on singin’, believe and keep livin’, no time for sleep when there’s wars to fight
You can
Do anything, go anywhere
Do anything, go anywhere
Do anything, go anywhere
Do anything, go anywhere
Dave:
Do anything
Girls:
She go break them law
Dave:
Go anywhere
Girls
He go break down door (x 4)
Lydia:
(Spoken) So my brothers, the message I would give you people
Have your own freedom
That’s what I go tell you people
So I can choose for where I go and where I for no go
And second one I go tell he say
See this word, now politician, politician is no good
I go tell he say, we go power hey we can do this, no good do that
They a come out those people, those a no la la, la la people
You go trust yourself before you go trust someone else
Which my brother you dey
And you go trust politician because there no money
So they can say chill before you think you vote for this stupid politician for nothing
That’s how you get this world
This one is straight to the people that themselves Oribo people, Australian people
They can tell me you can everywhere, do everything you want
If you no go anywhere, my brother you go sit one place, destroy
Your foot will rot
This one is for Africans, make sure you have proper power
Where you can stand up for yourselves, say we have our own freedom
Can go anywhere we want, can get anywhere we want, anything
Girls:
Do anything, go anywhere; do nothing you go nowhere
Do anything, go anywhere; do nothing you go nowhere
Do anything, go anywhere; do nothing you go nowhere
Do anything, go anywhere; do nothing you go nowhere
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